The first of the Spring 2010 LISA Short Courses was “An Introduction to Statistical Analysis,” by Dr. Eric Vance, the director of LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis). We ...

R is a free computing and graphical software/environment for statistical analysis. Part II of this short course consists of introduction to statistical analysis in R, including t-tests, ANOVA, linear ...

Introduction -- Distributors -- Introduction to measures of central value and dispersion -- Population and sample -- The normal distribution -- Statistical inference: estimation and tests -- Inference ...

Many students in the MSLIS and MS in Data Analytics programs are required to learn about data analysis and assessment. One of the most useful tools (and it is free and open source) is RStudio, an IDE ...

Applied Statistics is the implementation of statistical methods, techniques, and theories to real-world problems and situations in several fields, such as science, engineering, business, medicine, ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

The scientific world is abuzz following recommendations by two of the most prestigious scholarly journals – The American Statistician and Nature – that the term “statistical significance” be retired.